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Marguerite Straus Frank (born September 8, 1927), is an American-French mathematician, and pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming. == Education and career == After attending secondary schooling in Paris and Toronto, she contributed largely to the field of Lie algebras, which later became the topic of her PhD thesis, and to transportation theory. She was one of the first female PhD students in mathematics at Harvard University. Together with Philip Wolfe in 1956 at Princeton, she invented the Frank–Wolfe algorithm, an iterative optimization method for general constrained non-linear problems. While linear programming was popular at that time, the paper marked an important change of paradigm to more general non-linear convex optimization. During that time, both Marguerite Frank and Philip Wolfe were part of the Princeton logistics project led by Harold W. Kuhn and Albert W. Tucker. In 1977, she became an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University, before moving to Rider University. Marguerite Frank was a visiting professor to Stanford (1985–1990), and ESSEC Business School in Paris (1991). She was elected a member of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1981. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marguerite Frank」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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